NHS Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Integrated Care Board (ICB) APMS Specialised Services for Homeless, Asylum Seekers and the Special Allocation Scheme

Concepts

• leicester
• health services
• rutland integrated care board
• specialist primary care services
• primary care services
• general medical services
• apms specialised services
• similar services
• rutland
• nhs leicester

Location

Leicester

Description

NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (ML CSU) on behalf of the Commissioner, NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) is seeking to commission a provider to deliver APMS Specialised Services for Homeless, Asylum seekers and the Special Allocation Scheme in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Total Quantity or Scope

The service is being commissioned via a Competitive Process conducted in line with the Provider Selection Regime for Healthcare Services 2023. (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/349/contents) The ICB wishes to receive responses to the Invitation to Tenders (ITTs) from Providers with the necessary skill and experience to provide the range of services required. The service will include specialist primary care services for asylum seekers across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Alongside their entitlement to register and a GP without charge, Asylum Seeker patients often require additional specialist knowledge and experience in order for them to be cared for effectively to prevent any unwarranted escalation into acute mental or physical health provision. The service will provide general medical services to the homeless population across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. For this service specification, 'Homeless' can be defined as a person/family who: • have no accommodation available to occupy. • are at risk of violence or domestic abuse. • have accommodation but it is not reasonable for them to continue to occupy it. • have accommodation but cannot secure entry to it. • have no legal right to occupy their accommodation. • live in a mobile home or houseboat but have no place to put it or live in it. The service will provide a Special Allocation Scheme (SAS) scheme whereby the designated GP practice provides primary care services to patients across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland who have been removed from routine general practice. These patients have been allocated to the scheme after being immediately removed from their current practice as a result of an incident that was reported to the police. The ICB is seeking to award one contract to deliver the three services. The contract is anticipated to start on the 1st of April 2025 for 10 years with the option to extend for a further 5 years. The ICB have set a budget threshold for the contract, bids must be within the £1,324,297 envelope per annum. This is after the Out of Hours adjustment and is at 2024/25 prices. The envelope for the full contract term of 10 years plus the option to extend for a further 5 years is £19,864,448. It is also expected that the bidder works within the total financial envelope of £19,864,448, failure to do so will result in a non-compliant bid and automatic elimination as a potential bidder. Any bid received that is over the set thresholds will be eliminated from this Competitive process. VAT will not be chargeable to the ICB, the individual bidder will be responsible for any VAT incurred and therefore will need to ensure they can cover all appropriate costs within the pricing options shown. The invitation to tender (ITT) will be available on the ML CSU Atamis portal (see below) and it will have a deadline for submissions of 12:00 noon on Friday 16th August 2024. We recommend current providers of similar services, providers who may be interested in providing this service, or other stakeholders who may have an interest in providing this to register on the MLCSU Atamis portal to register their interest and get access to the ITT and all the related procurement documentation.

Renewal Options

Optional 5 year extension.

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

To register on Atamis If you have not accessed the portal before you will need to click Register from the landing page and complete the required form. 1) Register on the portal webpage https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome (registration and use of the website is free of charge). 2) Once registered, to search for tendering opportunities that have been published by the buying organisation, click Find Opportunities. 3) From the Find Opportunities page, click on the title of an opportunity. If the tendering project is at the stage where it is open for suppliers to express interest, you will be able to click Register Interest. For this project the contract reference on Atamis is C288394. For technical support in submitting your Expression of Interest or registering on the 'Atamis Electronic Sourcing system please contact the Atamis helpdesk via email: support@atamis.co.uk. All communications from providers should come through the Atamis portal. Strictly no other forms of communication to MLCSU or the Commissioner will be accepted (including telephone calls, postal queries/submissions, faxes or email communications) during this period. Provider Selection Regime The ICB are aware of their transparency obligations under The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. This notice is issued subject to Provider Selection Regime regulations. Please note that any subsequent contract emanating from this notice will be subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 will not apply to any future award. Right to Cancel The contracting authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The contracting authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change these. Transparency The contracting authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the contracting authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Further information on transparency can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement- and-contracting-transparency-requirements-guidance